Category: RECORD REVIEWS

Franz Ferdinand: All My Friends

Franz Ferdinand is playing at James Murphy’s house. One of the best Franz Ferdinand performances is on an LCD Soundsystem

April 17, 2018 / RECORD REVIEWS

Franz Ferdinand seems to have a thing for laziness. In addition to the Glasgow band’s generally louche persona, there’s a

April 17, 2018 / RECORD REVIEWS

Anyone who’s been cussed out by “Ben Franklin’s Song” knows Colin Meloy still has some poison left in his quill.

April 15, 2018 / RECORD REVIEWS

Weezer, the 10th album by Weezer, is about as good (or bad, your call) as Weezer, several measures worse than

April 19, 2016 / RECORD REVIEWS

Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream and Jesus And Mary Chain fame is often noted with the phrase, “A band is only

October 24, 2015 / RECORD REVIEWS

Sixty years ago today, explosively melodic jazz pianist Erroll Garner lit a fire in a Carmel By The Sea, Calif.,

September 18, 2015 / RECORD REVIEWS

I have no doubt that John Dwyer and the occasionally rotating crew of musicians he calls Thee Oh Sees are

According to William Blake, “The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom … you never know what is

Continuing their film-buff aesthetic (band moniker plus the director their side project Herzog is named for—look it up if necessary)

It’s not as if Jim O’Rourke made easily digestible vocal records when he was part of the indie-avant pop milieu

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania